skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
very cheap

This is a bad strategy for a business. Price is the worst thing to compete upon.

my math say it easily can be profitable for me to be like 5$ plan for 1000 images

Your math is probably wrong because customer acquisition and retention is hard. At $5, you have to find 200 customers to make $1000. And you have to keep them happy.

What is counter-intuitive about B2B sales is that your customers want to pay you enough money to keep you in business (because switching services has a lot of overhead). Being really cheap is a red-flag to potentially good customers because they know you can't stay in business.

Good customers are reliability sensitive. And service sensitive. Not price sensitive. Good luck.
imagining. head scratching sentry alerts or similar due to 2 year old client being incompatible with latest backend software for various websites.
5 tips on making first sales as Solo Founder without leaving 9-5 job as I did
Hi. I left a 9-5 job as a full stack dev, built 2 new startups, and made my first money from both. Rethinking life, I have a conclusion I could do it without leaving a full-time job. You can too.

Having more free time helped me build faster (~ 3 weeks to MVP). But I wouldn't have made it here without previous projects. Learning through failures! They failed in the commercial aspect, but made me where I am now!

Tips I can give you from my little journey:

- build many side-projects, and ultra-small MVPs with a 1-feature-only mindset. With each startup, you'll get better. It will improve your marketing, design, and launch strategies!

- find a tech stack that makes you build fast. Learn smth popular like NextJS, Tailwind, shadcn, etc, or good old tech stack you already know very well. But don't jump into hyped tech news when not needed! It won't make your product better 99% of the time.

- skip perfectionism. Don't reinvent the wheel. Reuse components. Use existing libraries for advanced tech aspects, not coding everything yourself.

- with each project try to spend more time on topics you're bad at. I'm a tech dev, so I lacked design and marketing skills. I try to improve every new landing page following best practices. I learn how to create better marketing copy and attention catchy headlines.

- look at the successful Founders you see in media from a little distance, don't compare yourself and feel bad about getting 0 views, payments, or failing the launch. It's okay to get motivated from others, but remember people mostly show the good side of their biz.

I failed a ProductHunt launch (it was my 2nd worst launch) and still got the best results, a few first-ever online sales, and positive feedback.

To summarize, I'd say just build, learn, and trust the process. We can make it, just continue the grind and don't give up! Also, don't leave your 9-5 if you have no rev to support your life! :)

Let me know if you find my tips helpful!
Given the prevalence of heart failure, I'd say that is almost certainly the primary cause, but it's a pretty hard-living profession where excess is encouraged in almost every way, which can be quite hard on the body generally. Joint replacements are very common - Hulk Hogan had both hips and knees replaced in his 50's as an example.
I think that it's a pretty grueling vocation.

John Oliver actually did a piece on it, and that was fairly revealing[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDs
When you have the time, checkout rates of the cancer and autoimmune within populations that live next to petro chemical facilities. The health impacts are generational, even for people who no longer live in those areas.

You can also checkout the track record of Shell in Nigeria to answer your question.
With a more integrated system (e.g. all Tesla hardware involved or simply a charger that can communicate with the vehicle's software), sensors and software may specify what it needs to be in order for charging to commence. Otherwise it's generally an optimization rather than a requirement. The optimal range will depend on the class of the charger (how fast it's able to charge as well as sensors and software), the vehicle in question (the physical batteries themselves as well as cooling/heating systems), and other physical factors.

In general: the faster the hardware can physically charge the battery, the more important temperature becomes.
I remember gamedevs wanting a company like this to test video game drivers and shader code on a slew of different cards and vendors but this seems clearly set up for LLM work.
Agreed. Maybe add immutability with copy semantics by default. And no null (through enumerations but worth pointing out).

Most of the Rust debates, praise and criticism are about higher level features, but just these sane pleasurable fundamentals is the main thing I miss in most languages (mostly Go and JS in my case).
> A group of executives meets. Should that meeting be recorded, even if it’s not a “hybrid” meeting and entirely happened in person?

If they are discussing matters related to the company, then it should at least be minuted.

The counterpart to "don't take notes on a criminal conspiracy" is "why, if you're not involved in a criminal conspiracy, are you not taking notes?"

(This has become absolutely endemic in UK government where all kinds of things happen in encrypted whatsapp groups .. which are then selectively leaked by one of the attendees.)
kvql: SQL-like query language on general Key-Value DB
Y’know, I see these random Wikipedia articles come up every day or so on the front page and wonder what is going on.

I thought they were organic at first but then I got skeptical and wondered if it was some vestige of the early days of HN where it was automatically injecting a random article to bolster content.

The other thing I thought could be happening was that there is an article on the front page in a particular topic, someone reads it finds a novel topic and then thinks to themself: “I know! I can post a Wikipedia article on that topic and farm some karma”.

Who knows.
Sorry, but I just get sick of people pontificating about the academics of type systems and monadics. Bored me to death.

std::optional<> is an extremely useful and welcome addition to C++ that improves code quality, is easy to understand, and has easy to reason about code generation.

No doubt there is something that could be demonstrated in Rust with Option that is compelling, but I'd rather people showed that so a basis for comparison with modern C++ code can be made.

I suspect in practice these arguments make little difference to real world code.
Something has to go out of it's way to explicitly delete a chat. Phone calls aren't stored by default in the first place. If all phone calls were recorded and deleted after 24 hours, then yes, it would probably be a violation of the legal hold to continue deleting them after 24 hours.
To me, the central tenet of anti-imperialism is more "it brings more harm than good", which is backed by the outcomes of many historical instances and I think is a pretty reasonable stance.

It should be possible to intervene to prevent genocides without then grabbing the region's natural resources and putting in place a despotic leadership.

Also, just on a side-note, if I'm not mistaken, Rome did not simply occupy conquered territories, it assimilated them and gave citizenship to the conquered people (those who were free at least). Imperialism is often described as beginning around the 18th century.
Space of software projects' names are so limited...

There is (was) xmake already: build tool used by XFree86/x.org before x.org modularization. It was very good, much better than auto*-tools, but didn't get enough traction outside XFree86 project.
Anyone want to try replicating YouTube's upvote counter fly-in animation?
This is horrible if true. HFO is just now becoming the standard after the HFC phase out for spray foam blowing agents. I really hope this is disproven somehow or we’re making a HUGE problem that will be very difficult to slow down given how slow regulation reaches markets like this.
Why Americans stopped buying convertibles
The Terminal is now becoming the most popular Cross Platform UI framework.
As a teacher, I agree that 2-parent families are more important than college.
I never played any of the arcade games he designed, but the photos of them making nice physical objects for people to enjoy are inspiring.

Stuff like this always tempts me into thinking about picking up making furniture or something, but man the space and equipment requirements don't seem workable without moving to a way bigger house.
Of course I need to choose cutlery. Should I eat with plastic fork? I prefer not to, for example.
Theranos vibes
I thought it was a weird logo or something, no idea it was even a button.
It's a publicly listed company, not a "person".
What are his shit movies?, I’m not aware of any but need to check them out.
This should not be on HN.
Vesuvius scrolls 'will also reveal secrets of Socrates'
https://archive.ph/5uh1L
You can use a raspberry pi with 8 GB of ram to run a quantised 7B model (eg. https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-Chat-GGUF), or any cheap stick pc.

For larger models, or GPU accelerated inference, there is no “cheap” solution.

Why do you think everyone is so in love with the 7B models?

It’s not because they’re good. They’re just ok, and it’s expensive to run larger models.
> ... can go much further.

I've been exploring the AM dial since this issue first arose a year or two ago. So far, the furthest transmission I've knowingly received was a station in Chicago while I was in NW Connecticut. I've also heard of people in the NE US receiving transmissions from Central America and Europe, especially at night (the sun causes some amount of interference).
> less likely to confuse anyone than not using any flag

This doesn't seem obvious to me. I don't think the word "English" is likely to confuse any English speaker.

> anyone offended by this needs to grow a tougher skin

Are you saying this with the personal experience of being from a country that now speaks the language of its colonizer?
I don't understand, how we found ourself in the world where "one way, one tool, one repository" is good thing.
It is totalitarianism, you know? It is considered bad in politics and social life.
Diversity is considered good for healthy ecosystems!
Yeah it matters given how the whole argument falls on advanced aspects of the type system and templates. How can you speak with authority about a language you clearly aren't using day to day?

I have never once missed the distance of an optional<T&>. The practical use of optional<> is that you know where T is going to be constructed and can reason about the memory layout. Using it as an alternative to T* has never even occurred to me. The ideal of bundling a presence flag and a pointer together (which would be the default underlying representation unless it was specialised to hold a T* internally) is gross and inefficient
> The astonishing new discovery could have a wide range of significant implications. It could help explain mysterious measurements over the years of ...

IANAP (Not A Physicist)...but is this actually news? It's been known for centuries that water (& ice) will slowly evaporate (& sublime) at far below the boiling point. And that it's mostly the water molecules at the top of the statistical distributions of kinetic energies which "make the leap" from the surface. And that water will absorb some light - which heats it up, aka increases the energy of whichever water molecule(s) absorbed a given photon.
The energy/compute cost per performance is not a good ratio due to current optimization. Old hardware makes it worse.

Consider making friends with people who have a good desktop or laptop computer to see if you can use it for a little while when visiting and making them a meal or coffee.

If you give up on local, it reduces the cost by using servers.

Give up on performance and allow hallucination for an introduction to llm’s is my only option for budget and local. A very specific spellcheck or similar based llm would be possible on limited hardware.

Iirc, there is a publication on 1.3bit or 1.4bit quantization that someone implemented on GitHub.
What is the Gnome equivalent? If you mean GSconnect, that's an implementation of kde connect. I think kde connect has some CLI tools, but they're not super ergonomic.

For CLI stuff, I usually just run the python http server or woof and make a QR code with the URL.
but if that's true, how i can sell that thinly veiled capitalism=bad narrative
Note this only matters for 32 bit systems. Good to see tho

> 64-bit architectures are not affected by the y2k38 problem, but they are affected by this transition.

^ surprised by this line. guess it also impacts lib32 packages on amd64

Little surprised it didn't happen sooner, but guess 64bit transition dampened urgency. Looks like it was waiting on changes in glibc etc. Unfortunately the remaining 32bit space is less likely to support upgrades
> Arguing you can't do something because someone will be offended is also not very helpful: you can almost always find some offensive interpretation of anything

You mentioned the sorites paradox earlier. Do you think it could be applied here as well?
Is that different to imake (aka xmkmf) ?
E.B. White's Beautiful Letter to Someone Who Lost Faith in Humanity
Why are you repeatedly taking us in circles? You already said that and I already responded to that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40258150
Goal is to make it a side income. So, trying to understand is worth invest time or targeting low price audience is fail target?
Can confirm. I bought Freespace 2 in 2009 and it's still there in my account with no DRM.
Without data going through the server it should be pretty cheap to host, right?
I would argue that's to be expected after the first generally accepted POC (GPT-3.5) was released, with it an entire industry created, and other companies actually started copying/competing in a big way.

It seems a stretch to read this as a continuing trend, when (from what I gather everyone agrees on) the way to better models seems to be ever more efficient handling of ever larger amounts of money, compute and data, with no reasonable limits in sight on any of the three.
That is the biggest BS I've heard in some time. Maybe go ahead and compare the interchange fees of AMEX compared to other cards and then there benefits and income requirements.

If it's not obvious it's the whole points/cashback scheme in Canada and especially the US what's driving up the fees for businesses and in the end all customers no matter the payment method.

Either we should have regulated maximum fees like the EU introduced and/or allow sellers to charge fees for certain payment methods - now the only option is to not accept AMEX at all.
https://www.sharedrop.io/ as well.
It's open sourced, too.
Exactly this. The way to do this is to use the LLM as the statistical model inside an arithmetic coder. You use its next-token probabilities to encode the next token. The KL divergence between the LLM's probabilities, and the empirical probabilities in the corpus that you actually compress, is the compression inefficiency.
A platform for Search engine indexable real-time public communities
Yeah true tho I’m referring to the counter being set via the content style, which doesn’t update the DOM as such but does/can change layout
Aside from making some signs grammatically incorrect, it means places/streets cannot be named after anyone with an apostrophe in their name without mangling their name. It's a bit ironic to honour people by failing to respect their name.
There's a massive "super sewer" tunnel project going on since 2016.

https://www.tideway.london/the-tunnel/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ3ipd9pDCA
I'm sorry, I cannot treat seriously project with these installation instructions:

---
curl -fsSL https://xmake.io/shget.text | bash
---

System packet manager? What is it? Never heard about it.

It is like copying "src" directory to new name with each change in sources instead using version control system.
I don't think so. We have major domestic and on-shoring efforts taking place and a massive pool of migrants to draw from for cheap labor in addition to low cost collaborations with Mexico. The cost of trashy consumer goods might spike but the market would quickly supply alternatives for manufacture of important goods.
Sony is one of the most customer-hostile companies in existence. Betting on them not banning you one day for breaking ToS is not an option.
While that may be legally the case right now, the EU explicitly intends to limit this practice. E.g. in the proposal on the legal tender of cash published last year by the Commission [0], which will also apply to the digital euro, it mandates:

"To ensure the effectiveness of the legal tender of cash, this Regulation applies also to ex ante unilateral exclusion of payments in cash and to the access to cash", where ex ante unilateral exclusion of payments is defined as "a situation when a retailer or service provider unilaterally excludes cash as a payment method for example by introducing a ‘no cash’ sign. In this case, the payer and payee do not freely agree to a means of payment for a purchase;"

In Article 7, the regulation requires that member states monitor this practice and, if it undermines the intention of the legal tender (i.e. merchants must sell you goods for cash), they shall apply "remedial measures".

Also:
IANAL, but at least in Germany, implied-in-fact contracts render the contract of purchase "signed" the moment you receive the good over the counter from the merchant. If you haven't payed by then, you are in debt to the merchant and from what I would say, the legal tender rules apply.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A20...
So what?

Half of all programmers are below median (for whatever that means).

Just do your best.

Same as if you were a good programmer.

Good luck.
I had never heard his name until today. But boy, I just read a bit about him and visited his Facebook page. Such a talented individual!
I'd say any time I hear these conservative laments, my main response it always, "so what?". It's an ideology that doesn't believe in government intervention, and what other lever do they have to influence collective behavior? That is to say, what do they want to do about it? If you only have complaints, but are unwilling to even try and take any action to change what you see as a problem, then you have only created your own victimhood narrative.
Looks like it is the same. Maybe, my memory fails me? But I can google "XFree86 xmake" and get meaningful results.
Same formative experience here and exact same sentiment.

It's always rich kids that benefited from capitalism their entire life that seem to fetishize communism the way that video does.
You mean a package manager like this?

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Funny how this just keeps happening in the C++ world. I've seen ten different promise/task frameworks successfully used in production with neat APIs but somehow std::future is still just a toy. Even std::expected was released without the usual map/then.
Duralex glasses are impressively durable. I am not quite sure how they make them, but they bounce several times when dropped. I don’t recall them exploding in tiny shards either, but I may be misremembering.

Incidentally. They seem to be close to bankruptcy (again) and to be looking for investors.
> Many people find Claude Opus superior

Many more do not, according to the LMSYS leaderboard.

> Llama 3 is basically interchangeable with GPT-4 for a huge number of tasks

Sure. I am sure the number approaches infinity, if you are willing to let the model inform the task. That's usually not what most people are looking for in a tool.
> so there isn't the need to have massive HF antenna to create relay link any more.

HF is having quite a resurgance among various militaries.
Sure it is! If we were trying to compress an archive of orbital data, one way to do it would be "initial positions + periodic error correction". If you have the new planet, your errors will be smaller and can be represented in less space at the same precision.
> there is a complete disconnect between wealthy liberals trying to virtue-signal, and the communities they pretend to want to help.

There is a disconnect between wealthy people and poor people regardless of political views. It's convenient to call out the hypocrisy of the rich liberals, but that doesn't make the conservatives a better alternative for the disadvantaged.

That's all the more deplorable that the guy from TFA denounces community activists. These people may have an agenda as he says (though not more than any other people publicly involved in politics), but most of them are presumably from the community they defend. Who else would represent the poor communities otherwise?
No watermellons, or ketchup this summer, soz.

My entire family to this day is compelled to load up on whatever discounted-because-of-oversupply items when shopping, on the premise that they will not be available in the future due to asinine production planning.
Isn't zig good tool for this as well? I've seen it being used in passing [0] - is this reasonable thing to do and we may see more of it?

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/build.zig
I use Sublime Text with orgextended plugin* for orgmode. I just use it just for the markdown/text editing and labels (:DONE, :TODO, ...) part, not any "advanced" orgmode stuff such as calendar. A colleague uses the markdown plugin for the .md files with ST in the same spirit. I just prefer orgmode. In the end, the main thing is to have colors and hierarchisation of the ideas in one topic. Just to ease the reading of my future self. I have many .org files, one for each topic.

* https://github.com/ihdavids/orgextended
It’s even horrible with this change
See Rocket Lab in New Zealand.

There's already a place in Australia I suspect is developed in anticipation
The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
Yes, quite a lot (but eventually shared with other people); examples:

- https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine

- https://github.com/rochus-keller/FlowLine2

- https://github.com/rochus-keller/WorkTree

- https://github.com/DoorScope

The first one I'm still using every day and there are several hundered downloads each month.
I am also glad that libgen exists. Liberating human knowledge from copyright will improve humanity overall.

But I don’t understand how you can be sure that the big players are using it as a training corpus. Such an effort of questionable legality would be a significant investment of resources. Certainly as the computronium gets cheaper and techniques evolve, bringing it into reach of entities that don’t answer to shareholders and investors, it will happen. What makes you sure that publicly owned companies or OpenAI are training on libgen?
> People write docs about stuff they care about but nobody writes docs about the weird error they got once that they needed a workaround for

Google has an internal stackoverflow-style site as well as bug reports and mailing lists that are all preserved for longer than 1-1 chats.
He states, in his about[0]: "...exposing this sort of nonsense to as much popular contempt as I can muster."

It's deliberate.

I sometimes enjoy folks that write like this, and this chap genuinely seems to be an interesting guy, after my own heart, but I don't really enjoy his writing.

[0] https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/about/